Who is Participating?

ok - this solution was posted by microsoft for outlook web access password changes but may apply to you as it's not really an exchange-specific issue. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=827614
reasons given that password change does not apply:
You try to change your password more than one time in a twenty-four hour period.
The Group Policy object for your organizational unit has the Minimum Password Age set to 1.
The solution goes through checking your default domain policy and setting minimum password age back to 0 to resolve the issue.

Also found this relating to password change problems in IIS 6.0 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=833734
Dave will probably be able to provide you with a more educated guess as to whether this hotfix would apply to you but it's probably worth at least a read.

Are you entering the account in the format DOMAIN\Username ?
Does your IIS log provide any information about what is happening with the request?

0

onwinAuthor Commented: 2004-09-22

I do mention the domain name along with the user name in the format - DOMAIN\Username.
The log has the following entries when I try to change the password
2004-09-22 15:53:15 127.0.0.1 GET /IISADMPWD/aexp4.asp - 80 - 127.0.0.1 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322) 200 0 0
2004-09-22 15:53:43 127.0.0.1 POST /iisadmpwd/achg.asp - 80 - 127.0.0.1 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322) 200 0 0

What kind of authentication do you have setup on the IISADMPWD directory? Is it Integrated only or just anonymous?
I can't tell from your logs because the username is not logged (this is either because it's not setup to log that information or because anonymous access is being used). Try switching to integrated only and see if that makes any difference.
Both of the requests you have shown are showing a status code of 200 which means the web page requests themselves are successful.

I meet all the complexity requirements as well as the uniqueness requirements when changing the password. So, the issue is not related to that. Thank you for your feedback.

Alimu:

I used both integrated and anonymous forms of authentication on the IISADMPWD virtual directory and I still have the same results.

In general, I have noticed that this is an open issue reported by different users in an IIS6.0/Windows Server 2003 Environment in other news groups. Nobody could point towards the crux of the problem and resolve the issue.

so which one fixed your problem? (just to add to the EE knowledge base!)

0

onwinAuthor Commented: 2004-10-01

The group policy for the minimum password age was set to 1 in my case. When this was changed to zero, the change password function worked. So, I'd say the first link resolved the issue for me. We are still in the process of testing different change password scenarios to fully confirm that this is the resolution path.